Improvement in roach and bug-traps



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THOMAS WILLIAMS, OF TOMPKINSVILLE, NEW YORK.

4 Letters Patent No. 111,291, dated January 24, 1871.

lIMPROVEMENT IN ROACH AND B-UG-TRAPS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters E atent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS WILLIAMs, of Tompkinsville, in the county ot' Richmond and State of New 'Yorin have invented a new and improved Roach and Bug-Trap;` and I do hereby declare that the following isa fu1l,clear,rand exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled-in the art-to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specioation.

Figure l represents arci-tical central section of my improved trap. v

Figure 2 is a plan or top view of the same. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. H

This invention relates to certain improvements in the roach and bug-trap for which Letters Patentv of the United States, dated the 15th day of November, 1870, were issued to me.

The object of the present invention is to 4make the escape ofthe clptured animals from the trap still more difiicult than it was by the first-named trap.

The present invention consists in applying to the lower edge and ont-er side ot' the suspended funnel an annular tlange, which constitutes a trough, in which liquid for preventing the escape ofthe animals may be contained.

A inthe drawing represents the reinovable'funnel, which is suspended from the perforated top or cover a of the trap. This funnel is made of transparent or opaque material, and extends near enoughto the bottom b of vthe trap to allow 'the animals to readily enter the trap from and by means of said funnel; but still the lower edge of the funnel is far enough from the bottom to prevent the animals from reaching it from the bottom and escaping.

c is a concave ange projecting from the lower part of the funnel outward from the same,c0nstituting an annular troughiibnthe reception of water or other liquid or substance, whereby the animals areI prevented from reaching the lower edge of the 'funnel by crawling down the outer side of the same.

In Iny other trap, patented as aforesaid, this provision was not made; and some animals might have reached said lower edge of the funnel by crawling up on` the sideI of the trap andl then down on the outside ot' the funnel. Having thus described niy invention, 4

I cla-iin as new and desire to secure by Letters The annular trough c l'illed with liquid, attached to the lower end of Vthe funnel A, combined,- as described, with the vessel in which the latter is placed, for the purpose of preventing .thc bugs from crawling around into lthe funnel.

THOMAS VILL'IAMS.

Witnesses GEO. W. llfliusnn, i. B. Mosnnn. 

